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Boardwave
Boardwave is a London-based impact-led organisation founded by Phill Robinson in April 2022. Boardwave was established as a community of European software entrepreneurs, Founders and CEOs to enable them to work together to accelerate their business growth and to improve the overall position of Europe as a home for global software companies. It has a launched in the UK, Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Boardwave had 2,000 members as of February 2025, with 575 mentors pledging over 4500 hours of pro bono mentoring time. Boardwave’s female founder network included 350+ members across Europe. It has hosted dedicated events, such as Cash not Croissants about funding and scaling. On 10 October 2022, it held the first Boardwave dinner debate in London on the topic of Winning big against Silicon Valley, and 270 members immediately signed up as Boardwave Mentors. On 28 September 2023, Boardwave announced Jonathan McKay, Leo Apotheker and Elona Mortimer-Zhika as new board ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phill Robinson
Phill Robinson (born 21 November 1965) is a British businessman and the founder and CEO of Boardwave, a European networking community for software CEOs and Investors. He is the former chief executive officer of IRIS Software Group and Exact Software in the Netherlands. He was also Chief Marketing Officer at Salesforce.com. Early life He was born in Leicester, England and attended Rawlins Community College and comprehensive school, in Quorn. Robinson received a BSc in Computer Science from Coventry Polytechnic, now Coventry University, in 1988. After graduating he joined Oracle Corporation. A year later he moved to Silicon Valley. Career Robinson has 35 years leadership experience in the software industry. He served in the management teams of a number of international software firms in both Europe and the US. With Oracle (1987 – 1990) he started as a graduate consultant and after a year moved to Redwood Shores, California to prepare and bring to market Oracle's first MRP s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Kelly (businessman)
Stephen Paul Kelly (born 30 December 1961) is a British businessman, and the former Chief Executive Officer of Sage Group, and current Chief Executive Officer of Cirata (since 2023). Early life He was born in Kent, England and attended the Harvey Grammar School in Folkestone. Kelly received a BSc in Business Administration from the University of Bath. He went on to receive an honorary doctorate in Business Administration in 2016. Career Kelly has 40 years' of leadership experience in both the private and public sectors. He is currently CEO of Cirata and previously has held three CEO positions with UK & US public tech companies, as well as spending three years as the first Chief Operating Officer of the UK Government. Under his CEO stewardship, the companies increased their combined market value by approximately $10bn. He started his career in Technical Support, working for the now-defunct British tech firm, ICL, for four years. In 1988, he joined American multinational c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidrick & Struggles
Heidrick & Struggles International Incorporated is an international executive search and management consulting company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States. History Heidrick & Struggles was founded in 1953 by Gardner Heidrick and John E. Struggles, both former employees of the management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. In 1957, Heidrick & Struggles began expanding outside of the Midwest with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York City. In 1968, the firm established an office in London, the firm today employs 2,200 people, with offices in 57 cities throughout North and South America, Europe and Asia. John E. Struggles remained with the firm until his retirement in 1986. Gardner Heidrick, who retired in 1982, died in 2002. In 1999, the firm became a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ. In 2014, Tracy R. Wolstencroft was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Heidrick & Struggles, a role he held until 2017, when he became Chairman and K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organizations Based In Europe
An organization or organisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences) is an entity—such as a company, or corporation or an institution (formal organization), or an association—comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose. Organizations may also operate secretly or illegally in the case of secret societies, criminal organizations, and resistance movements. And in some cases may have obstacles from other organizations (e.g.: MLK's organization). What makes an organization recognized by the government is either filling out incorporation or recognition in the form of either societal pressure (e.g.: Advocacy group), causing concerns (e.g.: Resistance movement) or being considered the spokesperson of a group of people subject to negotiation (e.g.: the Polisario Front being recognized as the sole representative of the Sahrawi people and forming a partially recognized state.) Compare the concept of social groups, which may include non-organizat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Visma
Visma (acronym for ''Visual management'') is a privately held company headquartered in Oslo, Norway, that provides cloud accounting, payroll, invoicing, and HR business software products. The majority of the company is owned by HgCapital, a private equity firm. The company was formed in 1996 in Norway, through the merging of Multisoft, SpecTec and Dovre Information Systems. The Group's market segments include small business, medium business, public, and ecosystem. The Visma Group operates across Europe and a number of countries in Latin America. Øystein Moan (CEO 1997–2020) Former Visma CEO and now chair of the board, Øystein Moan (born 1959), earned an MSc in computer science at the University of Oslo. Prior to Visma, Moan was the founder and managing director oCinet AS After becoming CEO of the Visma Group in 1997, he grew the company from 300 to 8,500 employees and increased the revenue from NOK 250 million to €1.1 billion (2019 figures). In 2020, Moan was succeede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Di Donato
Melissa Di Donato is an American-born businesswoman based in the United Kingdom and CEO of Kyriba. Career Early in her career, Melissa Di Donato worked on enterprise resource planning system, SAP R3. She had various positions at IBM, Salesforce, Oracle and eventually became the chief revenue officer of SAP's cloud division. In July 2019, Melissa Di Donato was appointed CEO of SUSE, becoming the first woman to lead the company. Under her leadership, SUSE completed its initial public offering on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in May 2021, becoming one of Europe’s largest publicly traded open-source software companies. In March 2023, SUSE announced that Di Donato would be stepping down from her role as CEO. During her tenure, SUSE experienced a 60% revenue growth and made strategic acquisitions to strengthen its position in the container management and security markets. On April 22, 2023 Di Donato was appointed as a non-executive board member to the newly created Department for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sage Group
The Sage Group plc, commonly known as Sage, is a British Multinational corporation, multinational enterprise software company based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. it is the UK's second largest technology company, the world's third-largest supplier of enterprise resource planning software (behind Oracle Corporation, Oracle and SAP), the largest supplier to small businesses, and has 6.1 million customers worldwide. It has offices in 23 countries. The company is a patron of The Glasshouse, Gateshead music venue in Gateshead. Sage is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. History 1981 to 2000 The company was founded by David Goldman (businessman), David Goldman, Paul Milford Muller, Paul Muller, and Graham Wylie in 1981 in Newcastle upon Tyne, to develop estimating and accounting software for small businesses. A student at Newcastle University, Graham Wylie, took a summer job with an accountancy firm funded by a government small busi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salesforce
Salesforce, Inc. is an American cloud-based software company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It provides applications focused on sales, customer service, marketing automation, e-commerce, analytics, artificial intelligence, and application development. Founded by former Oracle executive Marc Benioff in March 1999, Salesforce grew quickly, making its initial public offering in 2004. As of September 2022, Salesforce is the 61st largest company in the world by market cap with a value of nearly US$153 billion. It became the world's largest enterprise applications firm in 2022. Salesforce ranked 491st on the 2023 edition of the ''Fortune'' 500, making $31.352 billion in revenue. Since 2020, Salesforce has also been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. History Salesforce was founded on March 8, 1999 by former Oracle executive Marc Benioff, together with Parker Harris, Dave Moellenhoff, and Frank Dominguez as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léo Apotheker
Léo Apotheker (born 18 September 1953) is a German business executive. He briefly was the chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard from November 2010 until his dismissal in September 2011. He was co-chief executive officer of SAP from April 2008 until he resigned in February 2010 following a decision by SAP not to renew his contract. During his tenure as chief executive at HP, the company lost more than $30 billion in market capitalization after a series of strategic missteps by the company, leading to his resignation. At SAP, which he joined in 1988 and where he spent more than 20 years, he played an instrumental role in developing and implementing a number of significant changes. Apotheker currently sits on the board of KMD, Schneider Electric SA, Steria, and the non-profit organization PlaNet Finance. He previously served on the board of directors of GT Nexus. Apotheker is fluent in five languages: German, Dutch, French, English and Hebrew. Early life and education A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goldman Sachs
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. ( ) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is headquartered in Lower Manhattan in New York City, with regional headquarters in many international financial centers. Goldman Sachs is the second-largest investment bank in the world by revenue and is ranked 55th on the ''Fortune'' 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue. In the Forbes Global 2000 of 2024, Goldman Sachs ranked 23rd. It is considered a systemically important financial institution by the Financial Stability Board. Goldman Sachs offers services in investment banking (advisory for mergers and acquisitions and restructuring), securities underwriting, prime brokerage, asset management, and wealth management. It is a market maker for many types of financial products and provides clearing and custodian bank services. It operates private-equity funds and hedge funds. It structures complex and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McKinsey & Company
McKinsey & Company (informally McKinsey or McK) is an American multinational strategy and management consulting firm that offers professional services to corporations, governments, and other organizations. Founded in 1926 by James O. McKinsey, McKinsey is the oldest and largest of the " MBB" management consultancies. The firm mainly focuses on the finances and operations of their clients. Under the direction of Marvin Bower, McKinsey expanded into Europe during the 1940s and 1950s. In the 1960s, McKinsey's Fred Gluck—along with Boston Consulting Group's Bruce Henderson, Bill Bain at Bain & Company, and Harvard Business School's Michael Porter—initiated a program designed to transform corporate culture. A 1975 publication by McKinsey's John L. Neuman introduced the business practice of "overhead value analysis" that contributed to a downsizing trend that eliminated many jobs in middle management. McKinsey has been the subject of significant controversy and is the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Index Ventures
Index Ventures is a European venture capital firm with headquarters in both San Francisco and London. It invests primarily in tech companies. History Index Ventures has its origins in a Switzerland, Swiss bond (finance), bond-trading firm called Index Securities, founded by Gerald Rimer in 1976. In 1992, Rimer recruited his son Neil to join the firm, launching a technology investment arm that evolved into Index Ventures. Index Ventures was officially founded in 1996 by Neil Rimer, David Rimer and Giuseppe Zocco. It began investing in Israel in 2003, and by 2005 raised €300 million for its third fund. Two years later, it raised an additional €350 million for its fourth found, which focused 15 to 20 percent on investing in Israeli companies. The sixth fund raised €350 million from investors in 2012 and focused on investments in Europe, the United States, U.S., and Israeli tech startups. In 2017, it raised €400 million for its seventh fund, focusing on companies in Europ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
